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Word: spokes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McDonald spoke at the Lamont Forum Room meeting following Mason Hammond '25, Professor of History, who talked on Rhodes Scholarship opportunities and requirements, and Dean Bender, who presented information on Henry Fellowships and special awards for Harvard graduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Will Award 600 Fellowships | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...there were dwelling among the multitudes some who favored the one contestant, some who favored the other; these harangued and spoke querulously to one another, maintaining the worthiness of their choices, so that the whole of the multitude seemed riven by this controversy, and within the space of but two days the sky was darkened by the gloomy clouds of faction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everybody Up | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...Chancellor then spoke of the action that has kept Shortliffe out of this country...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...luncheon hour; only a dozen Senators lolled at their seats as Connecticut's Brien McMahon spoke. "The day will come," he said, "when the Soviet Union will achieve atomic weapons. When that day will be, no man knows. But that it will come is as certain as that I stand on the floor of the Senate today." McMahon was reciting the arguments for the Administration's $1,314,010,000 military-aid program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Day Will Come | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

After the President's announcement last week of the U.S.S.R.'s progress in making an atomic bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nobel-Prizewinner Harold C. Urey spoke for U.S. scientists. Said he: "We were never so sorry in our lives that we were so right." Since June 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had shown on its cover two clock-hands pointing to 11:52. Individual scientists, groups of scientists and scientific associations have solemnly warned, time & again, that the clock would soon strike twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Striking Twelve | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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